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REPORTS 



OF THE 



COMMITTEE ON EXILES, 

UNITED STATES SENATE, 



PROM THE ORGANIZATIOxN OP THE COMMITTEE, DECEMBER 9, 1874, TO 

TUE CLOSE OP THE FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1887, INCLUSIVE. 



IN ONE VOLUME. 



COiTPILED, UNDER THE DIRECTION OE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING, 

BY 

T. H. ISdIoKEE, 

Clerk, Document Room, United States Senate. 



WASHIITGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

1887. 
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FORTY-NINTR CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. 

[Public Eesolution— No. 24.] 

Joint resolution authorizing the preparation of a compilation of the reports of com- 
mittees of the Senate and House of Representatives. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Bepresentatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That there be prepared under 
the direction of the Joint Committee of Printing, a compilation of the 
reports of the Senate and House of Eepresentatives from the Four- 
teenth to the Forty-eighth Congress, inclusive, classified by committees, 
arranged, indexed, and bound in suitable volumes for the use of the 
standing committees of the two Houses of Congress. And the sum of 
seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as 
may be found necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the preparation of said 
work, which sum may be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury upon 
the order of the chairman of said Joint Committee, as additional pay or 
compensation to any officer or employee of the United States. 

Resolved further^ That the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the 
Senate be, and they are hereby directed, to procure and file, for the use 
of their respective Houses, copies of all reports made by each commit- 
tee of all succeeding Congresses ; and that the Clerk of the House and 
the Secretary of the Senate be, and they are hereby, authorized and 
directed at the close of each session of Congress, to cause said reports 
to be indexed and bound, one copy to be deposited in the library of 
each House and one copy in the room of the committee from which the 
reports emanated. 

Approved, July 29, 1886. 



Ll3.»A(vY OF COnGkESS 
RRCEIVSD 

SfP 2Ci930 

wvraw Of cobuMEMTa 



COMPILER'S NOTICE. 



This compilation embraces all the printed reports made by both 
Honses of Congress from the commencement of the Fourteenth to the 
close of the Forty-ninth Congress. They are classified by committees 
and arranged in numerical order. The collection for each committee is 
divided into volumes of suitable size. Each committee has a separate 
index, a copy being bound in each volume. 

The SPECIAL and select reports ure all compiled in one collection 
having one index, a copy of which is bound in each volume. 

The plan throughout the compilation is to place each report to the 
committee from which it was reported, without reference to the subject- 
matter. 

The House and Senate reports are compiled separately. Care will 
be required in noticing the chronological order, as in some instances an 
entire session or Congress may not appear in certain volumes from the 
fact that during this period no reports were made by this committee. 

T. H. McKEE. 
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I N 13 E X 

TO 

REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES, 

i UNITED STATES SENATE. 



FROM 1874 TO 1887, INCLUSIVE. 

[XOTE.— Reports on all questions not personal will be found under the name of the Senator submitting. 

tbfe same.l 



Subject. 



ANTHOXT, HENEY B. (a Senator from Hhode Island), 
Eeport made by, • 

Senate, United States, to amend twenty-fourth rule of 

BLAi:NrE, JAMES Gr. (a Senator from Maine), 
Kepoit made by, 

" Eules, joint, to report to House of Representatives a series of 

EDMUNDS, GEORGE F. (a Senator from Vermont), 
Report made by. 

Senate, United States, to amend thirtieth rule of 

FERRY, THOMAS W. (a Senator from Michigan), 
Report made by. 

Senate, United States, standing rules for conducting business in, amending. 
FRYE, WILLIAM P. (a Senator from Maine), 
Report made by. 

Bill House' Representatives 2344, to change word "of" in 

HALE, JOHN PARKER (a Senator from New Hampshire), 
Report made by, 

Senate. United States, to amend rules regulating admissions to floor of 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, to revise rules and orders by which business 
of, shall be regulated. 

By Mr. King 

INGALLS, JOHN JAMES (a Senator from Kansas), 
Report made by. 

Senate, United States, to procure seal for use of 

JOINT RULES, to report series of, to House of Representatives, 

By Mr. Blaine 

KING, RUFUS (a Senator from New York), 
Report made by. 

Rules and orders, to revise 

POLAR, MELISSA G.^ to change word "of " in bill House Representatives 2344, 
entitled an act for relief of, 

By Mr. Frye 

RULES, 

House of Representatives, to report series of joint rules to. 

By Mr. Blaiue 

Senate, United States, 

To amend rules regulating admission to floor of, 

By Mr. Hale 

Standing rules for conducting business in, 

By Mr. Ferry 

To amend rule twenty- four, • 

By Mr. Anthony 

To amend rule thirty. 

By Mr. Edmunds ^ 

To revise, 

By Mr. King 

S JIAL, to procure, for use of Senate, 

By Mr. Ingalls 



404 

204 

465 

716 

156 

16 

48 
404 

16 

716 

404 

156 

465 

64 

204 

16 

48 



INDEX TO REPORTS OF COMMITTEE ON RULES, SENATE. 



Subject. 



SENATE, UNITED STATES, 

Floor of, to amend rules regulating admissions to, 

By Mr. Hale _ 

Order of business, 

By Mr. Smith ..^ ~ 

Kules, 

To amend twenty-fourth, 

By Mr. Anthony ^....... ; .....^ 

To amend thirtieth, 

By Mr. Edmunds .........i. 

Kules and orders, to revise, 

By Mr. King ..-.- 

Seal, to procure, for use of. 

By Mr. Ingalls -.,-... ..., 

Standing rules for conducting business in, 

Bv Mr. Ferry 

SMITH, SAMUEL (a Senator ffom Msiryland), 
Keport made hy, 

Senate, United States, order of business of...... , 

STANDING RULES for conducting business in Senate of United States 
amending, 
By Mr. Ferry - 





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31st Congress, [SENATE.] Rep. Cop^. 

1st Session. No. 156. 



IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



June 20, 1850. 

Submitted, and ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Hale made the following 

REPORT. 

The committee to whom was referred the resolution offered hy the senator 
from New Hampshire y and the amendment thereto by the senator from 
North Carolina, relative to an amendment of the rules of the Senate 
regulating admissions to the floor of the Senate , having had that subject 
under consideration y report the following addition to the ¥ith rule, viz: 

Blank tickets, equal to the number of the senators for the time being, shall 
be prepared, and one ticket may be issued, under the direction of the 
Vice President, by such officer as he may designate, to each senator at his 
request, on which ticket his name shall be endorsed, and which ticket 
shall entitle the person to whom it may be delivered to admission on the 
floor of the Senate. 



40th Congress, ) SENATE. i Rep. Com. 

2d Session. ( \ No. 56. 



IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



February 21, 1868.— Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Anthony, from the Select Committee appointed to revise the rules of the 
Senate, submitted the following 

RBPOET. 

The Select Committee appointed to revise the rules of the Senate have had the 
same under consideration, and recommend the following for the standing rules 
for conducting business in the Senate of the United Slates : 

COMMENCEMENT OF DAILY SESSIONS. 

1. The Presiding O^cer having taken the chair, and a quorum being present, 
the journal of the preceding day shall be read, to the end that any mistake may 
be corrected that shall be made in the entries. 

[16 April, 1789. 

A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Senators duly chosen and sworn. 

[4 May, 1864. 

BUSINESS NOT TO BE INTERRUPTED. 

2. No Senator shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of 
the Senate, or read any newspaper, while the journals or public papers are 
reading, or when any Senator is speaking in any debate. 

[16 April, 1789— 1,4 Feb., 1828, 

RULES IN SPEAKING OR DEBATE. 

3. Every Senator, when he speaks, shall address the Chair, standing in his 
place, and when he has finished shall sit down. 

[16 April, 1789. 

4. No Senator shall speak more than twice, in any one debate, on the same 
day, without leave of the Senate, which question shall be decided without debate. 

[16 April, 1789. 

5. When two Senators rise at the same time, the Presiding Officer shall name 
the person to speak ; but in all cases the Senator who shall rise lirst and address 
the Chair shall speak first. 

[16 April, 1789-14 Feb., 1828. 

CALLS TO ORDER AND APPEALS. 

6. If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the 
Senate, the Presiding Officer shall, or any Senator may, call to order; and 
when a Senator shall be called to order by the Presiding Officer, or a Senator, 
he shall sit down, and shall not proceed without leave of the Senate. And every 
question of order shall be decided by the Presiding Officer, without debate, 
subject to an appeal to the Senate ; and the Presiding Officer may call for the 
sense of the Senate on any question of order. But when an appeal shall be 



"2 RULES OF THE SENATE. 

taken from the decision of the Presiding Officer, any subsequent question of 
order, which may arise before the decision of such appeal by the Senate, shall 
be decided by the Presiding Officer without debate, and every appeal therefrom 
shall also be decided at once, and without debate. 

[16 April, 1789—14 Feb., 1828—26 June, 1856. 

EXCEPTIONABLE WORDS. 

7. If a Senator be called to order by another for words spoken, the excep- 
tionable words shall immediately be taken down in writing, that the Presiding 
Officer may be better able to judge of the matter. 

[16 April, 1789. 

ABSENT SENATORS MAY BE SENT FOR. 

8. No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Senate without 
leave of the Senate first obtained. And in case a less number than a quorum 
of the Senate shall convene, they are hereby authorized to send the Sergeant- 
at-arms, or any other person or persons by them authorized, for any or all 
absent Senators, as the majority of such Senators ^vQB^xii shall agree, at the ex- 
pense of such absent Senators, respectively, unless such excuse for non-attend 
ance shall be made as the Senate, when a quorum is convened, shall judge 
sufficient, and in that case the expense shall be paid out of the contingent fund. 
And this rule shall apply as well to the first convention of the Senate, at the 
legal time of meeting, as to each day of the session, after the hour has arrived 
to which the Senate stood adjourned. 

[16 April, 1789—25 June, 1798—4 Feb., 1828. 

RULE FOR DEBATE. 

t). No motion shall be debated until the same shall be seconded. 

[16 April. 1789. 

RULE FOR MOTIONS, DEBATE, AND WITHDRAWAL. 

10. When a motion shall be made and seconded, it shall be reduced to writ- 
i^ng, if desired by the Presiding Officer or any Senator, delivered in at the table, 
and read, before the same shall be debated ; and any motion may be withdrawn 
by the mover at any time before a decision, amendment, or ordering of the yeas 
and nays, except a motion to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without 
leave of the Senate. 

[16 April, 17S9— 14 Feb., 1823—21 Jan., 1S51. 
PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS WHEN A QUESTION IS UNDER DEBATE. 

IL When a question is under debate no motion shall be received but — 

to adjourn ; 

to proceed to the consideration of Executive business ; 

to lie on the table ; 

to postpone indefinitely ; 

to postpone to a day certain ; 

to commit ; or 

to amend ; 
which several motions shall have precedence in the order they stand arranged ; 
and motions to adjourn, tn proceed to the consideration of Executive business, 
and to lie on the table, shall be decided without debate, and motions to take up 
or proceed to the consideration of any question shall be deterinined without 
debate upon the merits of the qiiestion proposed to be considered. 

[16 April, 1789—13 Jan., 1820—14 Feb., 1628. 



RULES OF THE SENATE. 



DIVISION OF A QUESTION. 

12. If the question in debate contain several points any Senator may have 
the same divided; but, on a motion to strike out and insert, it shall not be in 
order to move for a division of the question; but the rejection of a motion to 
strike out and insert one proposition, shall not prevent a motion to strike out 
and insert a different proporition ; nor prevent a subsequent motion simply to 
strike out; nor shall the rejection of a motion simply to stril^e out prevent a sub- 
sequent motion to strike out and insert. 

[IG April, 1789—23 June, 1832. 

FILLING BLANKS. 

13. In filling up blanks, the largest sum and longest time shall be first pufe. 

[16 April, 1789—3 Jan., 1820—14 Feb., 1828. 

OBJECTION TO EEADING A PAPER. 

14. When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected to by 
any Senator, it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate, and without debate. 

[3 Jan., 1820—14 Feb., 1828, 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS— PRIOR SPECIAL ORDER. 

15. The unfinished business in which the Senate v/as engaged at the last 
preceding adjournment shall have the preference in the special orders of the 
day. 

[3 Jan., 1820—14 Feb., 1828. 

YEAS AND NAYS. 

16. When the yeas and nays shall be called for by one-fifth of the Senators 
present, each Senator called upon shall, unless for special reasons he be excused 
by the Senate, declare openly, and without debate, his assent or dissent to the 
question. In taking the yeas and nays, and upon a call of the Senate, the names 
of the Senators shall be called alphabetically. 

[16 April, 1789. 

17. When the yeas and nays shall be taken upon any question, in pursuance 
of the above rule, no Senator shall be permitted, under any circumstances what- 
ever, to vote alter the decision is announced from the Chair. 

[4 April, ] 822— 14 Feb., 1828. 

CLOSING THE DOORS AND CLEARING THE GALLERY. 

18. On a motion made and seconded to shut the doors of the Senate, on the 
discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of a Senator, require 
secresy, the Presiding Officer shall direct the gallery to be cleared ; and during 
the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain shut. 

[20 Feb., 1794. 

NO PERSON ADMITTED TO PRESENT PETITION; ETC. 

19. No motion shall be deemed in order to admit any person whatsoever 
within the doors of the Senate Chamber to present any petition, memorial, or 
address, or to hear any such read. 

[27 April, 1798.. 

RECONSIDERATION. 

20. When a question has been made and carried in the affirmative or negative,.. 
whether previously reconsidered or not, it shall be in order for any Senator of the 
majority to move for the reconsideration thereof; but no motion for the recon- 



RULtS OF THE SENATE 



sideratiou of any vote shall be in order after the bill, resolution, message, report, 
amendment, or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the 
possession of the Senate, announcing their decision, except a resolution confirm- 
fno- or rejecting a nomination by the President; nor shall any motion for recon- 
sideration be in order, unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken, 
or within the two next days of actual session of the Senate thereafter ; but a 
motion to reconsider a vote upon a nomination shall always, if the resolution 
announcino- the decision of the Senate has been sent to the President, be accom- 
panied by°a motion requesting the President to return the same to the Senate. 
When any question may have been decided by the Senate, in which two-thirds 
of the Senators present are necessary to carry the affirmative, any Senator who 
votes on that side which prevailed in the question may be at liberty to move for 
a reconsideration ; and a motion for reconsideration shall be decided by a ma- 
jority of votes. But no motion to reconsider a vote upon a motion to reconsider 
shall he in order at any time. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^_^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^_ ^^^^ 

CASTING VOTE OF THE VICE-PEESIDENT. 
21. When the Senate are equally divided, the President may announce his 
vote upon the question. ^^^ j^^^,_ ^^gg 

QUESTION PUT BY THE PEESIDING OFFICER. 

22 All questions shall be put by the Presiding Officer of the Senate, either 
in the presence or absence of the President of the United States, and the Sena- 
tors shall signify their assent or dissent by answering aye or no. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 

APPOINTMENT OF A MEMBER TO THE CHAIR. 

23 The Presiding Officer of the Senate shall have the right to name a Sena- 
tor to perform the duties of the chair ; but such substitution shall not extend 
beyond an adjournment. ^3 j^^^ ^g^^ 

MORNING BUSINESS, PETITIONS, REPORTS, etc. 

24 After the journal is read, the Presiding Officer shall lay before the Senate 
messages from the President, reports from the Executive Departinents and bills 
and joint resolutions, or other messages from the House of Representatives. He 
shall then call for — 

Petitions and memorials ; 

Reports of committees ; 

The introduction of bills ; 

Joint resolutions ; 

Resolutions; , -, 7 • ^„^ 

all which shall be received and disposed of in such order, unless unanimous con- 
sent shall be otherivise given; and every petition or memorial, or other paper 
shall be referred, of course, without putting a question for that purpose, unle.s 
the reference is objected to by a Senator at the time such P^tf o^^' niemonal, or 
other paper is presented. And before any petition or memorial, addressed to the 
Senate, sO^all be received and read at the table, whether the same shall be int o 
duced by the Presiding Officer or a Senator, a brief statement of the content, 
of the petition or memorial shall verbally be made by the introducer. 

^ [18 April, 1789—10 April, 1831. 

NOTICE AND PRINTING OF BILLS, ETC. 
25. One day's notice, at least, shall be given of an intended motion for leave 
to bring in a bill or joint resolution; and all bills and joint resolutions reported 



RULES OF THE SENATE. 5 

by a committee shall, after the first reading, be printed for the use of the Senate, 
and also all reports of committees, unless otherwise ordered ; but no other paper 
or document shall be printed for the use of the Senate without special order. 

[16 April, 1789—3 Feb., 1801—3 Jan., 1820-8 April, 1822—14 Feb., 1828. 

JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 

26. Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings previous to 
its being passed, and the Presiding Officer shall give notice at each whether it 
be the first, second, or third; which reading shall be on three different days, 
unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise. And all resolutions proposing 
amendments to the Constitution, or to which the approbation and signature of 
the President may be requisite, or which may grant money out of the contingent 
or any other fund, shall be treated, in all respects, in the introduction and form 
of proceeding on them in the Senate, in a similar manner with bills; and all 
other resolutions shall lie on the table one day for consideration, and also reports 
of committees. . 

COMMITMENT OF BILLS. 

27. No bill or joint resolution shall be committed or amended until it shall 
have been twice read, after which it may be referred to a committee. 

[16 April, 1789. 

IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. 

28. All bills and joint resolutions on a second reading shall first be considered 
by the Senate in the same manner as if the Senate were in Committee of the 
Whole, before they shall be taken up and proceeded on by the Senate ap-reeably 
to the standing rules, unless otherwise ordered. ° 

[21 May, 1789—26 March, 1806—3 Jan., 1820. 

FINAL QUESTIONS-REFERENCE TO COURT OF CLAIMS. 

29. The final question upon the second reading of every bill, resolution, or 
constitutional amendment originating in the Senate, and requiring three read- 
ings^ previous to being passed, shall be, whether it shall be engrossed and read 
a third time ; and no amendment shall be received for discussion at a third read- 
ing of any bill, resolution, or amendment, unless by unanimous consent of the 
Senators present ; but it shall at all times be in order, before the final passage 
of any such bill, resolution, or constitutional amendment, to move its commit- 
ment; and should such commitment take place, and any amendment be reported 
by the committee, the said bill, resolution, or constitutional amendment shall be 
again read a second time, and considered as in Committee of the Whole, and then 
the aforesaid question shall be again put. Whenever a private bill is under con- 
sideration it shall be in order to move, as a substitute for it, a resolution of the 
Senate referring the case to the Court of Claims. 

[4 Feb., 1807—26 June, 1856. 

AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATION BILLS. 

30. No amendment proposing additional appropriations shall be received to 
any general appropriation bill, unless it be made to carry out the provisions of 
some existing law or some act or resolution previously passed by the Senate 
during that session, or moved by direction of a standing or select committee of 
the Senate, or in pursuance of an estimate from the head of some of the depart- 
ments ; and no amendment shall be received whose object is to provide for a 
private claim, unless it be to carry out the provisions of an existing law or a 
treaty stipulation. 



RULES OF THE SENATE. 

All amendments to general appropriation bills reported from com^^^^^^^^ 
the Senate, proposing new items of appropriation, shall, one day befoie hey are 
offa^e^be refen-ed tS the Committee on Appropriations, and all general appro- 
priation bills shall be referred to the said committee. 

[19 Dec, 1S50-7 May, 1852-13 Jan., 1854-3 May, 1854-7 March, 186/. 

SPECIAL ORDERS. 
31 When the hour shall arrive for the consideration of a special order U 
.hall' be the duty of the Freslding Officer to take it np, unless the unfinished 
husiness of the preceding day shall he under consideration. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^.^ 

PRECEDENCE IN SPECIAL ORDERS. 

When two or more subjects shall have been specially ^^.^\g^f /;^;^;;^f^^;^; 
tion, they shall take precedence according to the order oi time at vhich they 
were severally assigned, and such order shall at no time be lost or changed ex- 
cept by the direction of the Senate. [26 June, i856. 

PRECEDENCE IN SPECIAL ORDERS AND OVER GENERAL ORDERS. ^ 
When two or more subjects shall have been assigned for the same hour, the 
subTecfirsT assigned for th'at hour shall take precedence ; but ^P--l orders shal 
always have precedence of general orders, unless such special oidei. shall be 
postponed by direction of the Senate. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^g-g_ 

TWO-THIRDS REQUIRED TO MAKE A SPECIAL ORDER. 

No bill, joint resolution, or other subject, shall be «^^^f .^/P^J^f, «^t'' !tnr^ 
particular day and hour without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senator. 

present. ^13 January, 1862. 

MAKING UP THE JOURNAL. 
39 The titles of bills and joint resolutions, and such parts thereof only as 
ehrUbe affected by proposed amendments, shall be inserted on ^^l^e^J ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

33 The proceedings of the Senate shall be entered on the journal as con- 
d.ely a. possible, ca?e being taken to detail a true and accurate account of the 
p^cedinSs but every votfof the Senate shall be entered on the journal, ana 
r bHef stlt;ment of the contents of each petition, memorial, or paper, pre- 
sented to the Senate, shall also ^^^^^^^ l^lCr?^92-14 FeW,, 3S2S. 

STAXDING COJIJIITTEES. 

34 The following standing committees shall be appointed at the commence- 
ment of each session, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. ^_ ^^^^^^ ^^__ 

A Committee on Foreign Relations, to consist of ^Z^^^,^^,,,^. 
A Committee on Finance, to consist of seven SenaUrs^^^^^^ i„o_5Marc., is5r. 
A Committee on Appropriations, to consist of seven Senators. ^^^^^^^ ^^^,^ 
A Committee on Commerce, to consist of ^^^^^JJ^S™:!"/^;,., i,,3-5 MarC. 1S57. 
A Committee on Manufactures, to consist of five Senators. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 



RULES OP THE SENATE. 7 

A Committee on Agriculture, to consist of five Senators. 

[6 March, 1863. 

A Committee on Military Affairs, to consist of seven Senators. 

[10 Dec., 181G— 5 Marcli, 1857. 

A Committee on Naval Affairs, to consist of seven Senators. 

[10 Dec, 1816—5 March, 1857- 

A Committee on the Judiciary, to consist of seven Senators. 

[10 Dec, 181G— 5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, to consist of seven Senators. 

[10 Dec, 1816-5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Public Lands, to consist of seven Senators, 

[10 Dec, 1816—5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Private Land Claims, to consist of five Senators. 

[27 Dec, 1826-5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Indian Affairs, to consist of seven Senators. 

[3 Jan., 1820—5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Pensions, to consist of seven Senators. 

[10 Dec, 1816—5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to consist of five Se7iators. 

[28 Dec, 1832—5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Claims, to consist of seven Senators. 

[10 Dec, 1816— 5 March, 1857— 26 Jan., 1860. 

A Committee on the District of Columbia, to consist of seven Senators. 

[18 Dec, 1816—5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Patents, to consist of five Senators. 

[7 Sept., 1837—5 March, 1857. 

A Comniittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to consist of five Senators, 
who shall have power also to act jointly with the same committee of the Hou-p 
ot Representatives. 

[10 Dec, 1819-19 Dec, 1837-28 May, 1850-5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on Territories, to consist of seven Senators. 

[25 March, 1844—5 March, 1857. 

A Committee on the Pacific Railroad, to consist of nine Senators. 

[22 Dec, 1863. 

A Committee on Mines and Mining, to consist of seven Senators. 

[8 March, 1865. 

A Committee to Audit cM Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to 
consist of three Senators, to which shall be referred all resolutions directing the 
payment of money out of the contingent fund of the Senate, or creating a 
charge on the same. at j^ a 

[4 Nov., 1807—7 April, 1853-5 March, 1857. ' 

A Committee on Printing, to consist of three Senators, to whom shall be 
referred every question on the printing of documents, reports, or other matter 
ti-ansmitted by either of the executive departments, and all memorials, petitions 
accompanying documents, together with all other matter the printing of which 
shall be moved, excepting bills originating in Congress, resolutions offered by 
17\JT^'' communications from the Legislatures or Conventions lawfully 

comtilr. fT'f'^'.^''''''-^^^ ''''^'"' '" ^''''^ ^y order of the standing 
committees of the Senate ; motions to print additional numbers shall likewise be 
If? • ^ ^^^^^^^"i^^ttee; and when the report shall be in favor of printin^^- 
foTt.^Z "^V^'""^} be accompanied by an estimate of the probable 
cost the said committee shall also supervise and direct the procuring of maps 
and drawings accompanying documents ordered to be printed. 

[15 Dec, 1841-18 Dec, 1850-22 Jan., 1855-5 March, 1857. 



S RULES OF THE SENATE. 

A Committee ou Engrossed Bills, to consist of three Senators, whose duty it 
shall be to examine all bills, amendments, and resolutions, before they go out 
of the possession of the Senate ; and shall deliver the same to the Secretary of 
the Senate, who shall enter upon the journal that the same have been correctly 
engrossed. f3jan., 1820. 

A Committee on Enrolled Bills, to consist of three Senators, wlio, or some one 
of whom, shall forthwith present all enrolled. Senate hills to the President m per- 
son, for his signature, and report the fact and date of such presentation to the 

S(^^^^^^- [-6 Aug., 1789-5 March, 1857. 

APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES. 

35 In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate will proceed, 
by ballot, to appoint severally the chairman of each committee, and then, by 
one ballot, the other members necessary to complete the same ; and a majority 
of the whole number of votes given shall be necessary to the choice of a chair- 
man of a standing committee, but a plurality of votes shall elect the other mem- 
bers thereof. All other committees shall be appointed by ballot, and a plurality 
of votes shall make a choice. ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^_^ ^^^^ ^^^^_^^ ^^^^ ^^^3 

REFERENCE TO STANDING OR SELECT COMMITTEES. 

36 When motions are made for reference of the same subject to a select 
committee and to a standing committee, the question on reference to the stand- 
ing committee shall be first put. [i4Feb., 1823. 

EXECUTIVE BUSINESS-PROCEEDINGS ON NOMINATIONS. 

37. When nominations shall be made by the President of the United 
States to the Senate, they shall, unless othericise ordered by the Senate, be 
referred to appropriate committees ; and the final question on every nomination 
shall be, - Will the Senate advise and consent to this nomination .? which ques- 
tion shall not be put on the same day on which the nomination is received, nor on 
the day on which it may be reported by a committee, unless by the unanimous 
consent of the Senate. Nominations neither approved nor rejected during Vie 
session at ichich they are made shall not be acted upon at any succeedmg session 
without being again 7nade by the President ; and if the Senate shad adjourn 
or tahe a recess for more than thirty days, all nominations pending and not 
finally acted upon at the time of taking such adjournment or recess ^^fl^l^- 
turnedto the President, and shall not be afterwards acted upon, urdess again 
submitted to the Senateby the President; and all motions pending to reconsider 
a vote upon a nomination shall fall on such adjournment or recess; andt/ie^ec- 
retary of the Senate shall thereupon make out and furnish to the heads oj de- 
partments and other officers the list of nominations rejected or ^^^/^^^J^^^^f ' "^ 
Uuired by law. When the President of the United States ^hall mee e 
Senate in the Senate chamber for the consideration of executive bu^mes, the 
presiding officer of the Senate shall have a chair on the floor, be consideied a. 
the heaclof the Senate, and his chair shall be assigned to the President of t t 
United States. When the Senate shall be convened by the President of t e 
United States to any other place, the presiding officer of the Senate andtb. 
senators shall attend at the place appointed, with the necessary officers oJ the 

Senate. ^^^ August, 1789— is February, 1843. 



RULES OF THE SENATE. 



PROCEEDINGS ON TREATIES. 



38. When a treaty shall be laid, he/ore the Senate for ratification, it shall he 
read a first time, ivhcn no motion in respect to it shall be in order except to refer 
it to a committee or to print it in confidence for the use of the Senate. Its sec- 
ond reading shall be for consideration, and shall be on a subsequent day, when 
It shall be taken up as in Committee of the Whole and be considered by articles, 
when amendments may be proposed; but when amendments are reported by a 
committee they shall be first acted on,after which other amendments may be pro- 
posed; and when through, the whole proceedings had as in Committee of the 
Whole shall be reported to the Senate, when the question shall be, if the treaty be 
amended,^ '« Will the Senate concur in the amendments made in Committee of the 
Whole ?" and the amendments may be taken separately or in groups as the Senate 
may elect, after which new amendments may be proposed. The decisions thus 
made shall be reduced to the form of a resolution of ratification, with or without 
iimendments, as the case may be, which shall be proposed on a subsequent day, 
unless by unanimous consent the Senate determine otherioise, when every one shall 
again be free to move amendments, the question on which shall be proposed and 
taken as m the case of amendments to the article. And on the final question to 
advise and consent to the ratification in the form agreed to, the concurrence of 
two-thirds of the senators present shall be requisite to determine it in the affirm- 
ative, but all other inotions and questions thereon shall be decided by a majority 

[6 January, 1801. 
MATTERS CONFIDENTIAL AND SECRET. 

39. All confidential communications made by the President of the United 
btates to the Senate shall be by the Senators and the Officers of the Senate 
kept secret, and all treaties which may be laid before the Senate, and all re- 
marks and pi oceedmgs thereon, shall also be kept secret until the Senate shall, 
by their resolution, take, off the injunction of secrecy. 

[22 Dec, 1800—3 Jan., 1820. 

SECRECY OF REMARKS ON NOMINATIONS. 

40. All information or remarks concerning the character or qualifications of 
any person nominated by the President to office shall be kept a secret ; but the 

Jact that a nomination has ban made shall not be regarded as a secret. 

[3 Jan., 1820. 
CLEARING OF THE SENATE. 

41. When acting on confidential or executive business, the Chamber shall be 
cleared of al persons except the secretary of the Senate, the principal or exec- 
utive clerk, the sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, the assistant doorkeeper, and 
such other officers as the Presiding Officer shall think necessary ; and all such 
officers shall be sworn to secrecy. 

ra Jan., 1820., 

SEPARATE BOOKS TO BE KEPT. 

.• f ?' TJ^®.^^^^^^^*^^'® proceedings, the executive proceedings, and the confiden- 
tial legislative proceedings of the Senate, shall be kept in separate books. 

[19 May, 1789—15 April, 1828. 

EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS FURNISHED TO THE PRESIDENT. 

43. Nominations approved or definitely acted on by the Senate shall not be 
returned by the secretary of the Senate to the President until the expiration of 
Kep. Nc. 56 2 ^ "^ 



10 • RULES OF THE SENATE. 

the time limited for mahing a motion to reconsider the same, or while a motion 
to reconsider is jniiding, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate. The President 
of the United States shall, from time to time, he furnished with an authenti- 
cated transcript of the executive records of the Senate, hut no further extract 
from the executive journal shall he furnished, except by special order ; and no 
paper, except original treaties, transmitted to the Senate by the President of the 
United States, or any executive oficer, shall be returned or delivered from the 
office of the secretary of the St7iate, without an order of the Senate for that 
purpose. 

[27 Jan., 1792—27 March, 1818—5 Jan., 1829—6 AprU, 1667. 

PROCEEDINGS ON AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 

44. When an amendment to be proposed to the Constitution is under consid- 
eration, the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present shall not be re- 
quisite to decide any question for amendments, or extending to the merits, being 
short of the final question. 

^ [26 March, 1806. 

MESSAGES TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

4-5. Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Secretary, 
who shall previously indorse the final determination of the Senate 2i2')on bills 
■and other papers communicated. 

^ ^ [26 March, 1806. 

MESSENGERS INTRODUCED. 

46. Messengers may be introduced in any state of business, except while a 
question is putting, while the yeas and nays are calling, or while ths ballots are 

■^«^^^^^-- [26 March, 1806. 

PERSONS ADMITTED ON FLOOR. 

47. No person shall be admitted to the floor of the Senate, while in session, 
except as follows, viz : The officers of the Senate, members of the House of 
Representatives and their clerk, the President of the United States and his pri- 
vate secretary, the heads of departments, ministers of the United States and 
foreign ministers, ex-Presidents and ex-Vice-Presidents of the United States, 
ex-Senators, Senators elect, judges of the Supreme Court, and Governors of 
States and Territories . 

[17 March, 1853—23 Jan., 1851—24 Jan., 1854—6 March, 1856-11 Jan., lso9-. Feb., 1862. 

REGULATION OF SENATE WING OF THE CAPITOL. 

48. The Presiding Officer of the Senate shall have the regulation and control 
of such parts of the Capitol, and of its passages, as are or may be set apart for 
the use of the Senate and its officers. ^^ ^^^ ^^^^_^^ ^^^^ ^^_^_ 

RESTRICTION OF PRESENTING REJECTED CLAIMS. 

49. Whenever a claim is presented to the Senate and referred to a committee, 
and the committee report that the claim ought not to be allowed, and the report 
be adopted by the Senate, it shall not be in order to move to take the papers 
from the files for the purpose of referring them at a subsequent session, unless 
the claimant shall present a memorial for that purpose, stating m what respect 
the committee have erred in their report, or that new evidence has been discov- 
ered since the report, and setting forth the new evidence in the mem^onal. 



RULES OF THE SENATE. H 



PENALTIES FOR VIOLATING CONFIDENCE OF SENATE. 

50. Any Senator or officer of the Senate who shall disclose the secret ar con- 
fidential business or proceedings oj" the Senate shall be liable, if a Senator, to 
svffer expulsion from the body, and if an officer, to dismissal from the service of 
the Senate, and to punishment for contempt. 

[10 May, 1844, 

OATHS OF OFFICE. 

51. The oaths or affirmations prescribed by the Constitution and by the act 
of Congress of July 2, 1862, to be taken and subscribed before entering upon 
the duties of office, shall be taken and subscribed by every Senator iti open 
Senate before entering upon his duties. They shall also be taken and subscribed in 
the same way by the secretary of the Senate ; but the other officers of the 
Senate may take and subscribe them in the office of the secretary. 

[25 Jan., 1864. 
TRANSFER OF BUSINESS. 

52. At the second, or any subsequent, session of a Congress, the legislative 
business of the Senate which remains undetermined at the close of the next pre- 
ceding session of that Congress, shall be resumed and proceeded within the same 
manner as if no adjournment of the Senate had taken place ; and all subjects 
referred to committees, and not reported upon at the close of a session of Con- 
gress, shall be returned to the office of the secretary of the Senate, and be by 
him retained until the next succeeding session of that Congress, when they shall 
be returned to the several committees to which they had been previotisly referred. 

SUSPENSION AND AMENDMENT OF RULES. 

53. No motion to suspend, modify, or amend the rules, or any thereof, shall 
be in order, except on one day^s notice in writing, specifying the rule to be sus- 
pended, modified, or amended, and the purpose thereof But any rule 7nay be 
suspended by unanimous consent, except the seventeenth rule, which shall never 
be suspended. 

A motion to suspend, or to concur in a resolution of the House of Representa- 
tives to suspend, the 16t7i and 17th joint rules, or either of them, shall always 
be in order, be immediately considered, and be decided without debate. 

[16 April, 1789—26 March, 1806—3 Jan., 1820—24 Feb., 1828—7 May, 1852. 

CALLS FOR INFORMATION. 

54. All resolutions calling upon the President or upon any of the executive 
departments for information shall be referred without debate to the appropriate 
standing committee, which shall report upon the same, with an estimate of the 
vrobable expense of furnishing the information called for. 



41ST Congress, \ SENATE. ( Eeport 

2d Session. ) \ No. 64. 



m THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



March 8, 1870. — Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Anthony, from the Select Committee on the Revision of the Rules, 
submitted the following 

REPORT. 

Resolved, That the following be adopted as a rule of the Senate : 
Immediately after the i^rivileged morning business is completed, and 
not later than one o'clock, the calendar of special orders, if any, for that 
day, including the unfinished business of the day previous, shall be 
taken up and disposed of 5 and after that, or if there shall be no special 
orders for that time, the calendar of general orders shall be taken up 
and proceeded with in its order, beginning with the first subject on the 
calendar ; and in such case the following motions shall be in order at 
any time as privileged motions, save as against a motion to adjourn, or 
to proceed to the consideration of executive business, to wit : 

1. A motion to pass over the pending subject, which, if carried, shall 
have the effect to leave such subject in its existing place on the calendar 

or action at the next call of the calendar. 

2. A motion to place such subject at the foot of the calendar. 

Both of these motions sball be decided without debate, and shall have 
precedence in the order above named, and may be submitted as in the 
nature and with all the rights of questions of order. 

Resolved further, That the 24th rule be amended by adding thereto 
the following words : '' After the introduction of resolutions is com- 
pleted there shall be laid before the Senate, in their order, resolutions 
and concurrent resolutions introduced on any prior day, and the same 
shall be proceeded with in the S£y^ manner as is provided in the rule 
for the calendar of general orderjp 

Resolved further, That all rules or orders setting apart particular 
s days for particular classes of business be, and they hereby are, abolished. 



f» 



41ST Congress, ) SENATE. ( Eeport 

2d Session. i (No. 204. 



IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



June 3, 1870.— Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Edmunds, from tlie Select Committee on the Eevision of the Eules, 
submitted the following amendment to the thirtieth rule : 

Resolved, That the thirtieth rule of the Senate be amended by adding 
thereto the following : 

And no amendment herein authorized, ^' unless it be made to carry 
out the provisions of some existing law, or some act or resolution pre- 
viously passed by the Senate during that session," shall be received or 
adopted without a two-thirds vote j and the question on receiving such 
amendment for consideration shall be decided without debate. 

And no amendment to any such bill making legislative provisions, 
other than such as directly relate to the appropriations contained in the 
bill, shall be received or adopted without a two-thirds vote. 

And any pending amendment to an api)ropriation bill may be laid on 
the table without affecting the bill. 

It shall be in order at any time, when an appropriation biU is under 
consideration, by a two-thirds vote, to order the termination of debate 
at a time fixed, in respect to any item or amendment thereof then under 
consideratioD ; which order shall be acted upon without debate. 



Is^ Session, J • \ No. 465. 



44th C ^xvtoESS, I .SENATE. i 5^^9?J 



IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



July 14, 1876.— Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Ferry, from the Committee on Kules, submitted the following 

EEPORT: 

STANDING EULES FOE CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN THE 
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 

RULES. 
DAllrY SESSIONS. 

QUORUM — READING THE JOURNAL. 

1. The Presiding Officer having taken the chair, and a quorum being 
present, the Journal of the preceding day shall then be read, and any 
mistake made in the entries may be corrected. The reading of the 
Journal shall not be suspended unless by unanimous consent^ and when 
any motion shall be made to amend or correct the same, it shall be 
deemed a privileged question, and proceeded with until disposed of by 
the Senate. 

WHEN A QUORUM IS NOT PRESENT. 

S. If either at the commencement of any daily session of the Senate, 
or at any time during its daily sessions, a question shall be raised by 
any Senator as to the presence of a quorum, the Presiding Officer shall 
forthwith direct the Secretary to call the roll of Senators, and shall 
announce the result to the Senate j and these proceedings shall be with- 
out debate. 

ABSENT SENATORS SENT FOR TO MAKE A QUORUM. 

3. No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Senate 
without leave first obtained. Whenever it shall be ascertained that a 
quorum is not present, a majority of the Senators present may direct 



2 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

the Sergeaut-at-Arms to request, and, when necessary, to compel the 
attendauce of the absent Senators, which order shall be determined 
without debate ; and, pending its execution, and until a quorum shall 
be present, no motion, except a motion to adjourn, nor debate, shall be 
in order; and all proceedings under this rule shall cease upon an 
adjournment. 

PRESIDENT PRO TE3IP0RE TO BE CHOSEN. 

4. In the absence of the Vice-President, the Senate shall choose a 
President pro tempore and the Presiding Officer shall have the right 
to name a Senator to perform the duties of the Chair, but such sub- 
stitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment. 

MAKING UP THE JOURNAL. 

5. The proceedings of the Senate shall, briefly and accurately, , be 
stated on the Journal. Messages of the President, in full ; titles of bills 
and joint resolutions, and such parts as shall be affected by proposed 
amendments ; every vote, and a brief statement of the contents of each 
petition, memorial, or paper presented to the Senate, shall be entered. 

SEPARATE JOURNALS TO BE KEPT. 

6. The legislative proceedings ; the executive proceedings ; the con- 
fidential legislative proceedings, and the proceedings when sitting as a 
Court of Impeachment, of the Senate, shall each be recorded in a sepa- 
rate book. 



PRESE.lfTATIO]^ OF CREDElfTIAES. 

7. The presentation of the credentials of Senators-elect and other 
questions of privilege shall always be in order, except during the read- 
ing and correction of the Journal, while a question of order or a motion 
to adjourn is pending, or while the Senate is dividing; and all questions 
and motions arising or made upon the presentation of such credentials 
shall be proceeded with until disposed of by the Senate. 

ORDER OF BISIITES^. 

MORNING HOUR. 

8. One hour next after the reading of the Journal shall be designated 
as the morning hour, during which the order of business shall be as 
follows : 

First. The Presiding Officer, shall lay before the Senate message?^ 
from the President, reports and communications from the heads of De- 
partments, and other communications addressed to tL^^ Senate: and 



liTANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. t 3 

such bills, joint resolutions, and other messages from the House of Eep- 
resentatives as may remain upon his table from any previous day^s ses- 
sion undisposed of. 

Second. The Presiding Officer shall then call for, in the following 
order : 
The presentation of petitions and memorials. 
Eeports of the standing and select committees. 
The introduction of bills and joint resolutions. 
Concurrent and other resolutions. 

Until the business of the morning hour shall have been concluded 
and so announced from the Chair, no motion to proceed to the consid- 
eration of any bill, resolution, report of a committee, or other subject 
upon the calendar shall be entertained by the Chair, unless by unani- 
mous consent 5 and if such consent be given, the motion shall not be 
open to amendment and shall be decided without debate upon the merits 
of the subject proposed to be taken up -, nor shall the consideration of 
any subject taken up during the morning hour, except a motion to 
amend the Journal, or a motion pertaining to the credentials of a 
Senator-elect or his admission to his seat, be extended, unless by unani- 
mous consent}, beyond the expiration of the morning hour. 

If any portion of the morning hour shall remain after the call for 
resolutions, the Presiding Officer shall lay before the Senate, in their 
order, resolutions and concurrent resolutions introduced on any prior 
day, and the same shall be proceeded with, but not beyond the expira- 
tion of the morning hour, unless by the unanimous consent of the Sen- 
ate. 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS. 

9. Immediately upon the expiration of the morning hour, the Presid- 
ing Officer shall lay before the Senate the unfinished business at its last 
adjournment, which shall take precedence of the Special Orders, and 
shall be proceeded with until disposed of by the Senate. 

CALENDAR OF GENERAL ORDERS. 

10. At the expiration of the morning hour, if there shall be neither 
unfinished business nor special order, the Senate shall proceed with the 
Calendar of General Orders, unless it shall otherwise determine j and 
the subjects upon the Calendar of General Orders shall be taken up in 
the order in which they stand, and, if not finally disposed of, shall re- 
tain their respective positions on said Calendar until such final disposi- 
tion. And in all cases where the Senate shall take up the Calendar of 
General Orders, and shall not have gone through therewith, when the 
same shall be resumed, it shall be at the point which was reached when 
last under consideration. 

SPECIAL ORDERS. 

11. Any subject or matter may, by a vote of two-thirds of the Sena- 
tors present, be made a special order ^ and when the hour fixed for the 



4 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 

consideration of a special order shall arrive, it shall be the duty of the 
Presiding Officer to:;iay such special order before the Senate, unless 
there be unfinished business of the preceding day, in which case the 
unfinished business shall have precedence. 

PRECEDENCE IN SPECIAL ORDERS. 

12. When two or more subjects shall have been made special orders 
for the same day and hour, they shall have precedence according to the 
order of time at which they severally were assigned; which order shall 
not be changed, unless by direction of the Senate. 

SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY. 

13. Every special order shall, unless superseded by the unfinished 
business, be called up on the day and at the hour to which it was as- 
signed ; and, if not disposed of on that day, it shall then take its place 
upon the Calendar of Special Orders, in the order of time at which it 
was made a special order, unless it shall become by adjournment the 
unfinished business. 

PETITIO]\S. 

PETITIONS— PRESENTATION AND REFERENCE. 

14. Before anv petition or memorial shall be received or read at the 
table," it shall be'' signed by the petitioner or memorialist, and a brief 
statement of its contents shall be made by the Senator presenting it. 
But no petition or memorial or other paper signed by citizens or subjects 
of a foreign power, unless the same be transmitted to the Senate by the 
President, shall be received. 

Every petition or memorial shall be referred of course, without putting 
the question, unless objection be made by a Senator ; in which case all 
motions for the reception or reference of such petition, memorial, or 
other paper shall be put in the order in which the same shall be made, 
and shall not be open to amendment, except to add instructions ; but a 
motion to refer to a standing committee shall take precedence of a mo- 
tion to refer to a select committee. 

KEADIXCJ PAPERS. 

1 5 When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected 
to by any Senator, it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate, and 
without debate. 



STANDING RULES OF TflE SENATE. 5 

VOTI]\0. 

CALLING YEAS AND NAYS. 

1 6. When the yeas and nays shall be called for by one-fifth of the Sen- 
ators present, each Senator, when his name is called, shall, unless for 
special reasons he be excused by the Senate, declare openly and with- 
out debate his assent or dissent to the question j and in taking the yeas 
and nays upon any question, the names of the Senators shall be called 
alphabetically. 

SENATOR MAY BE CALLED ON TO ASSIGN REASONS FOR NOT VOTING. 

17. When a Senator, being present and declining to vote when his 
name is called, shall be required to assign his reasons therefor, and 
shall so assign them, the Presiding Officer shall thereupon submit the 
question to the Senate : ^' Shall the Senator, for [the reasons assigned 
by him, be excused from voting f^ which shall be decided without 
debate. And these proceedings shall be had after the roll shall have 
been called and before the result of the vote is announced; and anv 
further proceedings by the Senate in reference thereto shall be after 
such announcement. 

CANNOT VOTE AFTER DECISION ANNOUNCED. 

^/!' ^i^'n ^^\^^^^ ^^^ °^y« «^all be taken upon any question, no 
Senator shall, under any circumstances whatever, be permitted to vote 
after the decision shall have been announced from the Chair; but a 

o—fZTi: %' T'^^I '''''°' ^''^^^"^ ^^ ^^^' ^^^^ ^^^ unanimous 
consent of the Senate, change or withdraw his vote after such announce- 
ment. :N-o motion to suspend this rule shall be in order. 

VICE PRESIDENT SHALL GIVE CASTING VOTE. 

shlu\J^Z'^' f !""'' '^f '^^""^ ^' '^'^''^''^^ '^' Vice-President 
snail, by his vote, determine the question. 

RECONSIDERATION. 

wfeaVrTLT ^ ^"t"?.^''' .*"'"" """^ '^''''^'^ ^y ^ ^«te of the Senate, 
Senate anv s-'f "' ''*'™'"f ""^ ^ "^''^J''"'^ °' by two-thirds of the 
benate, any Senator voting on that side which prevailed may move for 
a reconsideration thereof, at any time, on the same day on w^rthe 

ofthe Senate "'""'''''' ''**" ""' '''''"'''' "^ ^ '"^J°"^y 

When a^bill, resolution, report, amendment, order, or message nnou 

which a vote has been taken, shall have gone out of the possfs^ion of 



6 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

the Senate and beeii communicated to the House of Kepresentatives, 
the motion to reconsider such vote shall be accompanied by a motion to 
request the House to return the same to the Senate; which last motion 
shall be acted upon immediately, and determined without debate. 

RECONSIDERATION— HOW LIMITED. 

SI . If the Senate shall refuse to reconside a vote, or if, upon the recon- 
sideration of a vote, it shall re-affirm its first decision of the question, 
no further motion to reconsider shaU be in order, unless by unanimous 
consent. And every motion to reconsider a vote taken upon any amend- 
ment or other question connected with a subject under consideration 
shall be decided at once, and a motion to reconsider may be laid on the 
table without affecting the question in reference to which the same may 
be made. And if carried shall be held to be a final disposition of such 
motion. 

BILLS— NOTICE GIVEN FOR LEAVE TO BRING IN. 

33. One day's notice, at least, shall be given of an intended motion 
for leave to bring in a bill or joint resolution ; but in the introduction 
of bills or joint resolutions on leave, such notice may be dispensed with, 
by unanimous consent. 

BILLS— THREE READINGS ON THREE DIFFERENT DAYS. 

33. Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings pre- 
vious to its being passed ; and the Presiding Officer shall give notice at 
each reading whether it be the first, second, or third ; which readings 

. shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct 
otherwise. 

BILLS— FIRST AND SECOND READING FOR REFERENCE. 

34. No bill or joint resolution shall be committed until it shall have 
been read twice ; bills and joint resolutions introduced on leave, and bills 
and joint resolutions from the House of Kepresentatives, shall be read 
once, and may be read twice, on the same day, if not objected to, for 
reference; but shall not be considered on that day, as in Committee of 
the Whole, nor debated, except for such reference, unless by unanimous 
consent. 

BILLS— PLACED UPON CALENDAR. 

35. Every bill and joint resolution reported from a committee, not 
having previously been read, shall be read once, and twice, if not 
objected to, on the same day, and be placed upon the Calendar m the 
order in which the same may be reported ; and every bill and joint res- 



STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 7 

olution introduced on leave, and every bill and joint resolution of the 
House of Representatives which shall have received a first and second 
reading without being referred to a committee, shall, if objection be 
made to further proceeding thereon, also be placed upon the Calendar 

BILLS— COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. 

36. AH bills and joint resolutions which shall have received two 
readings shall first be considered by the Senate in the same manner as 
if the Senate were in Committee of the Whgle, after which they shall 
be reported to the Senate ; and any amendments made in Committee of 
the Whole shall again be considered by the Senate, after which further 
amendments may be proposed. When a bill or resolution shall have 
been ordered to be read a third time, it shall not be in order to propose 
amendments, unless by unanimous consent, but it shall at all times be 
in order, before the final passage of any bill or resolution, to move its 
commitment ; and when the bill or resolution shall again be reported 
from the committee, ^t shall be placed upon the Calendar, and when 
again considered by the Senate, it shall be as in Committee of the Whole. 



A]IIE]¥DI?IE]\TS. 

AMENDMENTS— OENERAL APPROPRIATION BILLS. 

27. All general appropriation bills shall be referred to the Commit- 
tee on Appropriations, except bills making appropriations for rivers and 
harbors, which shall be referred to the Committee on Commerce ; and 
no amendment shall be received to any general appropriation bill, the 
effect of which will be to increase an appropriation already contained in 
the bill, or to add a new item of appropriation, unless it be made to 
carry out the provisions of some existing law, or resolution previously* 
passed by the Senate during that session j or unless the same be moved 
by direction of a standing or select committee of the Senate ; or pro- 
posed in pursuance of an estimate of the head of some one of the Depart- 
ments. 

AMENDMENTS REFERRED ONE DAY BEFORE PROPOSED. 

28. All amendments to general appropriation bills moved by direc- 
tion of a standing or select committee of the Senate, proposing to in- 
crease an appropriation already contained in the bill, or to add new 
items of appropriation, shall, at least one day before they are offered, 
be referred to the Committee on Appropriations ; and when actually 
proposed to the bill, no amendment proposing to increase the amount 
stated in such amendment shall be received ; in like manner, amend- 
i^ents proposing new items of appropriation to river and harbor bills 
shall, before being offered, be referred to the Committee on Commerce; 



8 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

also amendments to the bill establishing post-roads, proposing new 
post-roads, shall, before being offered, be referred to the Committee on 
Post-Offices and Post-Roads. 

AMENDMENTS— GENERAL LEGISLATION— RELEVANCY— MAY BE LAID 

ON THE TABLE. 

•JO. ^0 amendment which proposes general legislation shall be re- 
ceived to any general appropriation bill 5 nor shall any amendment not 
germane or relevant to the subject-matter contained in the bill be re- 
ceived 5 nor shall anv amendment to any item or clause of such bill be 
received which does^ot directly relate thereto; and all questions of 
relevancy of amendments under this rule, wlien raised, shall be submit- 
ted to the Senate and be decided without debate ; and any amendment 
to a general appropriation bill may be laid on the table without preju- 
dice to the bill. 

AMENDMENTS— PRIVATE CLAIMS. 

30. No amendment, the object of which is to provide for a private 
claim,' shall be received to any general appropriation bill, unless it be 
to carry out the provisions of an existing law or a treaty stipulation, 
which shall be cited on the face of the amendment. 

DIVISION OF A QUESTION. 

31. If the question in debate contain several propositions, any Sen- 
ator may liave the same divided, except a motion to strike out and 
insert, which shall not be divided; but the rejection of a motion to 
strike out and insert one proposition shall not prevent a motion to 
strike out and insert a different proposition, nor shall it prevent a 
motion simply to strike out, nor shall the rejection of a motion to strike 

. out prevent a motion to strike out and insert. But pending a motion 
to strike out and insert, the part to be stricken out and the part to be 
inserted shall each be regarded for the purpose of amendment as a 
question ; and motions to amend the part to be stricken out shall have 
precedence. 

FILLING BLANKS. 

3^. In filling blanks the largest sum and the longest time shall first 
be put. 

RESOtUTIOIVS PROPOSIIIfG AMExlf»:»lEXTS TO 
THE CONSTITUTION. 

' 33. Joint resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution shall 
be treated in all respects, in their introduction and form of Proceedin|, 
in like manner with bills ; but the concurrence of two-thirds of the Sen- 



STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 9 

ators present shall not be requisite to decide any question on amend- 
ments, or extending to the merits, being short of the final question on 
the passage of the resolution, except a motion to postpone indefinitely, 
which shall be decided by a vote of two-thirds ; but upon a question of 
nsisting upon or receding from an amendment of the Senate to a reso- 
lution of the House of Eepresentatives, or upon the final question of 
agreeing to an amendment of the House to a resolution of the Senate, 
and also upon agreeing to the report of a committee of conference upon 
any joint resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution, the vote 
shall be determined by twp-thirds of the Senators present. 



DEBATE. 

A SENATOR MAY BE CALLED TO ORDER. 

34. If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of 
the Senate, the Presiding Officer shall, or any Senator may, call him to 
order ; and when a Senator shall be so called to order, he shall sit down, 
and shall not proceed without leave of the Senate, which leave, if granted, 
shall be upon motion that he be allowed to proceed in order 5 which 
motion shall then be in order and be determined without debate. 

EXCEPTIONABLE WORDS TAKEN DOWN. 

S5. If a Senator be called to order for words spoken in debate, upon 
the demand of the Senator so called to order, or of any other Senator^ 
the exceptionable words shall be taken down in writing. 

SENATORS NOT TO BE INTERRUPTED IN DEBATE. 

30, The Presiding Officer shall name the Senator who is to speak, 
and in all cases the Senator who shall first rise and address the Chair 
shall speak first. No Senator shall speak to ov interrupt another Sen- 
ator in debate without his consent ; and to obtain such consent he shall 
first address the Chair. 

LIMIT IN DEBATE. 

ST. Every Senator, when he speaks, shall address the Chair, stand-^ 
ing in his place 5 and no Senator shall speak more than twice upon any 
one question in debate on the same day without leave of the Senate, 
which shall be determined without debate.. 



ORDER. 



QUESTIONS OF ORDER. 



^38. A question of order may be raised at any state of the business, 
and, when raised, shall be decided by the Presiding Officer, without 



10 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate ; or be may submit any que^ 
tion of order for the decision of the Senate. 

APPEALS ON QUESTIONS OF ORDER. 

30. When an appeal is taken from the decision of the Chair, any sub- 
sequent question of order which may arise before that appeal shall be 
determined, likewise any appeal therefrom, shall be decided without de- 
bate. All appeals taken when a proposition not debatable is pending 
shall also be decided without debate 5 and any appeal may be laid on 
the table without prejudice to the pending proposition, and thereupon 
vshall be held as affirming the decision of the Chair. 



]?IOTIO]¥S. 



MOTIONS SECONDED, AND WHEN TO BE REDUCED TO WRITING. 

40. All questions shall be put by the Presiding Officer of the Senate, 
and before a motion be debated, it shall be seconded j and if desired by 
the Presiding Officer, or any Senator, it shall also be reduced to writing. 

PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS. 

41. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received but — 
To adjourn, 

To adjourn to a day certain, or that when the Senate adjourn, it shall 
be to a day certain. 

To take a recess. 

To proceed to the consideration of executive business, 

To lay on the table. 

To postpone indefinitely, 

To postpone to a day certain, 

To commit. 

To amend ; 
which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they 
stand arranged j and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a 
recess, to proceed to executive business, and to lay on the table, shall 
be decided without debate. 

MOTION MAY BE WITHDRAWN OR MODIFIED. 

43, Any motion or resolution may be withdrawn or modified by the 
mover at any time before a decision, amendment, or ordering of the 
yeas and nays, except a motion to reconsider, which shall not be with- 
drawn without leave of the Senate. 



STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 11 

PREAMBLE MAY BE WITHDRAWN OR LAID ON THE TABLE. 

43, When a bill or resolution is accompanied by a preamble, the 
question shall first be put on the bill or resolution, and then on the pre- 
amble, which may be withdrawn by the mover before an amendment of 
the same, or ordering of the yeas and nays; or it may be laid on the 
table without prejudice to the bill or resolution, and shall be a final 
disposition of such preamble. 

COIfimiTTEES. 

APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES. 

44. In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate, 
unless otherwise ordered, shall proceed by ballot to appoint, severally, 
the chairman of each committee, and then, by one ballot, the other 
members necessary to complete the same. A majority of the whole 
number of votes given shall be necessary to the choice of a chairman 
of a standing committee, but a plurality of votes shall appoint the 
other members thereof. All other committees shall be appointed by 
ballot, unless otherwise ordered, and a plurality of votes shall appoint. 

When the chairman of a committee shall resign or cease to serve on 
a committee, and the Presiding Officer be authorized by the Senate to 
fill the vacancy in such committee, unless specially otherwise ordered, 
it shall be only to fill up the number on the committee. 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

45. The following standing committees shall be appointed at the 
commencement of each session, with leave to report by bill or other- 
wise : 

A Committee on Privileges and Elections, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Foreign Kelations, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Finance, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Appropriations, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Commerce, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Manufactures, to consist of five Senators. 

A Committee on Agriculture, to consist of five Senators. 

A Committee on Military Affairs, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Naval Affairs, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on the Judiciary, to consist of seven Senators. 

A Committee on Post- Offices and Post-Eoads, to consist of nine Sen- 
ators. 

A Committee on Public Lands, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Private Land-Claims, to consist of five Senators. 

A Committee on Indian Affairt, to consist of seven Senators. 

A Committee on Pensions, to (consist of seven Senators. 



12 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

A Committee on Eevolutionary Claims, to consist of five Senators. 

A Committee on Claims, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on the District of Columbia, to consist of seven Sen- 
ators. 

A Committee on Patents, to consist of five Senators. 

A Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to consist of five 
Senators, who shall have power also to act jointly with the same com- 
mittee of the House of Eepresentatives. 

A Committee on Territories, to consist of seven Senators. 

A Committee on Eailroads, to consist of eleven Senators. 

A Committee on Mines and Mining, to consist of seven Senators. 

A Committee on the Eevision of the Laws of the United States, to 
consist of five Senators. 

A Committee on Education and Labor, to consist of nine Senators. 

A Committee on Civil Service and Eetrenchment, to consist of seven 
Senators. 

A Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of tne 
Senate, to consist of three Senators, to which shall be referred all reso- 
lutions directing the payment of money out of the contingent fund of 
the Senate, or creating a charge upon the same. 

A Committee on Printing, to consist of three Senators. 

A Committee on the Library, to consist of three Senators. 

A Committee on Eules, to consist of three Senators. 

A Committee on Engrossed Bills, to consist of three Senators, who 
shall examine all bills, amendments, and joint resolutions before they 
go out of the possession of the Senate. 

A Committee on Enrolled Bills, to consist of three Senators, who, or 
some one of whom, shall examine all bills or joint resolutions which shall 
have passed both Houses, to see that the same are correctly enrolled, 
and, w^hen signed by the Speaker of the House and President of the 
Senate, shall forthwith present the same, when they shall have origin- 
ated in the Senate, to the President of the United States in person, and 
report the fact and date of such presentation to the Senate. 

REFERENCE TO C03IMITTEES. 

46. When motions are made for the reference of the same subject to 
a standing committee and to a select committee, the question shall first 
be put upon referring to a standing committee, and a motion simply to 
refer shall not be open to amendment, except to add instructions. 

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES OF CONFERENCE. 

47. The presentation of reports of Committees of Conference shall 
always be in order, excei^t while the journal is being read or a ques- 
tion of order or a motion to adjourn is pending, or while the Senate 
is dividing; and when received, the question of proceeding to the con- 
sideration of the report shall immediately be put, and shall be de- 
termined without debate. 



STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 13 

RESOLUTIONS, REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, AND MOTIONS TO DISCHARaE 
A COMMITTEE TO LIE ONE DAY FOR CONSIDERATION. 

48. AH resolutions and reports of committees and motions to discharge 
a committee from the consideration of a subject, and all subjects from 
which a committee shall be discharged, shall lie one day for consideration, 
unless by unanimous consent the Senate shall otherwise direct. 

MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT AND FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRE- 
SENTATIVES. 

49. Messages from the President of the United States or from the 
House of Eepresentatives may be received at any state of business, except 
while the Senate is dividing, or while the Journal is being read, or 
while a question of order, or a motion to adjourn is pending. 

COMMUNICATIONS TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND TO THE 

PRESIDENT. 

50. Messages shall be sent to the House of Eepresentatives by the 
Secretary, who shall previously certify the final determination of the 
Senate upon all bills, joint resolutions, and other resolutions which may 
be communicated to the House, or in which its concurreuce may be re- 
quested 5 and he shall likewise certify and deliver to the President 
of the United States all resolutions and other communications which the 
Senate shall direct to be laid before him. 



PRI]\TIT¥0. 

PRINTING OF PAPERS. 

51. Every motion to print documents, reports, or other matter trans- 
mitted by either of the Executive Departments, or to print memorials, 
petitions, accompanying documents, or any other paper, except bills ot 
the Senate or House of Eepresentatives, resolutions submitted by a 
Senator, communications from the legislatures or conventions, lawfully 
called, of the respective States, and motions to print by order of the 
standing or select committees of the Senate, shall, unless the Senate 
otherwise order, be referred to the Committee on Printing. When a 
motion is made to commit with instructions, it shall be in order to add 
thereto a motion to print. 

PRINTING ADDITIONAL NUMBERS. 

52, Motions to print additional numbers shall also be referred to the 
Committee on Printing j and when the committee shall report in favor 



14 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

of printing additional numbers, the report shall be accompanied by an 
estimate of the probable cost thereof; and when the -cost of printing 
such additional numbers shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, 
the concurrence of the House of Representatives shall be necessary for 
the order to print the same. 

PRINTING BILLS, JOINT RESOLUTIONS, AND REPORTS OF COM]\IITTEES. 

o3« Every bill and joint resolution introduced on leave or reported 
from a committee, and all bills and joint resolutions received from the 
House of Representatives, and all reports of committees, shall be printed, 
unless, for the dispatch of the business of the Senate, such printing may 
be dispensed with. 



WITHDRAWAL OR REFEREiVCE. 

WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS. 

54, Ko memorial or other paper presented to the Senate, except orig- 
inal treaties finally acted upon by the Senate, shall be withdrawn from 
its files, except by order of the Senate. But when an act may pass for 
the settlement of any private claim, the Secretary is authorized to trans- 
mit to the officer charged with the settlement, the papers on file relating 
to the claim. 

WHERE AN ADVERSE REPORT HAS BEEN MADE, COPIES TO BE LEFT 
WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE. 

35* No memorial or other paper, upon which an adverse report has 
been made, sh^l be withdrawn from the files ot the Senate unless, copies 
thereof shall be left in the office of the Secretary. 

CLAIMS ADVERSELY REPORTED NOT AGAIN REFERRED. 

56. Whenever a claim is presented to the Senate and referred to a 
committee, and the committee report that the claim ought not to be 
allowed, and the report shall have been agreed to by the Senate, it shall 
not be in order to move to take the papers from the files for the purpose 
of referring them, at a subsequent session, unless the claimant shall 
present a memorial for that purpose, stating that new evidence has been 
discovered since the report, and setting forth the new evidence in the 
memorial. 



BlSIlfESS CO:¥TIAlED FROlf l§El§$IOX TO 

SESJ^IOA^. 

57, At the second or any subsequent session of a Congress, the legis- 
lative business of the Senate which remained undetermined at the close 
of the next preceding session of that Congress shall be resumed and 



STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 15- 

proceeded with in the same manner as if no adjournment of the Senate 
had taken place ; and all subjects referred to committees and not re- 
ported upon at the close of a session of Congress, shall be returned to 
the office of the Secretary of the Senate, and be retained by him until, 
the next succeeding session of that Congress, when they shall be re- 
turned to the several committees to which they had been previously 
referred. 

PRIVILiECI^E OF THE FEOOR. 

PERSONS ADMITTED TO THE FLOOR OF SENATE. 

58. No person shall be admitted to the floor of the Senate while in* 
session, except as follows : 

The officers of the Senate. 

Members of the House of Eepresentatives and their Clerk. 
The President of the United States and his private secretary. 
The heads of Departments. 
Ministers of the United States. 
Foreign ministers. 

Ex-Presidents and Ex- Vice-Presidents of the United States. 
Ex-Senators and Senators- elect. 
Judges of the Supreme Court. 
Governors of States and Territories. 
General of the Army. 
Admiral of the Navy. 

Members of national legislatures of foreign countries. 
Private secretaries of Senators, duly appointed in writing, and the- 
Librarian of Congress. 

iSUSPET¥SIOI¥. . 

SUSPENSION OF THE RULES. 

59. No motion to suspend, modify, or amend any rule, or any part 
thereof, shall be in order, except on one day's notice in writing, speci- 
fying precisely the rule or part proposed to be suspended, modified, or 
amended, and the purpose thereof. Any rule may be suspended with- 
out notice, by the unanimous consent of the Senate ; and the rule pro- 
posed to be suspended shall precisely and distinctly be stated ; but the 
fortieth rule shall never be suspended under any circumstances whatever. 

SUSPENSION OF SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH JOINT RULES. 

60. A motion to suspend, or to concur in a resolution of the House 
of Eepresentatives to suspend, the sixteenth and seventeenth joint 
rules, or either of them, shall always be in order, except when the Sen. 
ate is dividing or the Journal is being read, be immediately considered^ 
aud be decided without debate. 



16 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

iSEIVATE 1VI]\G OF THE CAPITOIi IJ]¥DER COT¥- 
TROE OF PREi^IDII¥G OFFICER. 

6 1 • The Presidiug Officer of the Senate shall have the regulation and 
control of such parts of the Capitol building, and of its corridors and 
passages, as are, or may be, set apart for the use of the Senate and its 
officers, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate. 

OATHS OF OFFICE. 

6S. The oath or affirmation required by the Constitution and pre- 
scribed by the act of June 1, 1789, shall be taken in open Senate by 
■each Senator before entering upon his duties ; and te shall also take 
and subscribe in open Senate the oath or affirmation prescribed by the 
act of July 2, 1862, or he shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation 
prescribed by the act of July 11, 1868, as the case may be, before enter- 
ing upon his duties. The said oaths shall also be taken and subscribed, 
in the same manner, by the Secretary of the Senate ; but the other 
officers of the Senate may take and subscribe them in the office of the 
Secretary. 

ISESSIOIV WITH CEOSED DOORS. 

DOOES CLOSED ON MOTION. 

03. On a motion made and seconded to shut the doors of the Senate, 
on the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of a Sena- 
tor, require secrecy, the Presiding Officer shall direct the galleries to be 
-cleared J and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall re- 
main closed. 

EXECUTIVE SESSIO]¥. 

PRESIDENT MEETING THE SENATE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 

64. When the President of the United States shall meet the Senate 
in the Senate Chamber for the consideration of executive business, he 
shall have a seat on the right of the Chair. When the Senate shall be 
convened by the President of the United States to any other place, the 
Presiding Officer of the Senate and the Senators shall attend at the 
place appointed, with the necessary officers of the Senate. 

OFFICERS ADMITTED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 

6o, When acting upon confidential or executive business, the Senate 
Chamber shall be cleared of all persons except the Secretary, the Chi^f 



STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 17 

Clerk, the principal Legislative Clerk, the Executive Clerk, the Minute 
and Jonrnal Clerk, the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Assistant Doorkeeper 
and such other officers as the Presiding Officer shall think necessary- 
and all such officers shall be sworn to secrecy. ' 

SUBJECTS EMBRACED IN INJUNCTION OP SECRECY. 

66. All confidential communications made by the President of the 
United States to the Senate, shall be by the Senators and the officers of 
the Senate kept secret; and all treaties which may be laid before the 
Senate, and all remarks, votes, and proceedings thereon, shall also be 
kept secret, until the Senate shall, by their resolution, take off the in- 
junction of secrecy. , 

VIOLATION OP INJUNCTION OP SECRECY. 

67. Any Senator or officer of the Senate who shall disclose the secret 
or confidential business or proceedings of the Senate shall be liable if 
a Senator, to suffer expulsion from the body; and if an officer, to dis- 
missal from the service of the Senate, and to punishment for contempt 

PROCEEDINGS ON TREATIES. 

68. When a treaty shall be laid before the Senate for ratification it 
shall be read a first time ; and no motion in respect to it shall be in 
order, except to refer it to a committee, or to print it, in confidence, for 
the use of the Senate. ' 

When a treaty is reported from a committee with or without amend- 
ment It shall unless the Senate unanimously otherwise direct, lie one 
day for consideration ; after which it may be read a second time and 
considered as in Committee of the Whole, when it shall be proceeded 
with by articles; and the amendments reported by the committee shall 
be first acted upon, after which other amendments may be proposed • 
and when through with, the proceedings had as in Committee of the 
Whole shall be reported to the Senate, whe the questnion shall be if 
the treaty be amended, " Will the Senate concur in the amendments 
made in Committee of the Whole?" And the amendments may be 
taken separately, or in gross, if no Senator shall object; after which 
new amendments may be proposed. 

The decisions thus made shall be reduced to the form of a resolution 
of ratification, with or without amendments, as the case may be- which 
shall be proposed on a subsequent day, unless, by unanimous consent, 
the Senate determine otherwise; at which stage no amendment shall be 
received, unless by unanimous consent. 

On the final question to advise and consent to the ratification in the 
form agreed to, the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators present 
shall be necessary to determine it in the affirmative; bat all other mo- 
tions and questions upon a treaty shall be decided by a majority vote 
except a motion to postpone indefinitely, which shall be decided by a 
vote or two-thirds. "^ 

S. Rep. 465 2 



18 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 

WHEN ACTION UPON TREATIES SHALL EXPIRE. 

69. Treaties transmitted by the President to the Senate for ratifica- 
tion shall be resumed at the second or any subsequent session of the 
same Congress at the stage in which they were left at the final adjourn- 
ment of the session at which they were transmitted -, but all proceedings 
on treaties shall terminate with the Congress, and they shall be resumed 
at the commencement of the next Congress, as if no proceedings had 
previously been had thereon. 

INDIAN TREATIES, WHEN ACTED UPON IN OPEN SESSION. 

70. All treaties concluded with Indian tribes shall be considered and 
acted upon by the Senate in its open or legislative session, unless the 
same shall be transmitted by the President to the Senate in confidence; 
in which case they shall be acted upon with closed doors. 

NOMINATIONS— PROCEEDINGS. 

71. When nominations shall be made by the President of the United 
States to the Senate, they shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate, 
be referred to appropriate committees ; and the final question on every 
nomination shall be, " Will the Senate advise and consent to this nomi- 
nation?" Which question shall not be put on the same day on which 
the nomination is received, nor on the day on which it may be reported 
by a committee, unless by the unanimous consent of the Senate. 

REMARKS AND VOTES NOT TO BE DISCLOSED. 

73. All information communicated or remarks made b}^ a Senator 
when acting upon nominations, concerning the character or qualifications 
of the person nominated, also all votes upon any nomination, shall be 
kept secret. If, however, charges shall be made against a person nomi- 
nated, the coffjmittee may, in its discretion, notify such nominee thereof, 
but the name of the person making such charges shall not be disclosed. 
The fact that a nomination has been made, or that it has been confirmed 
or rejected, shall not be regarded as a secret. 

NOMINATIONS — RECONSIDERATION. 

73. When a nomination is confirmed or rejected, any Senator voting 
in the majority may move for a reconsideration on the same day on 
which the vote was taken, or on either of the next two days of actual 
executive session of the Senate ; but if a notification of the confirma- 
tion or rejection of a nomination shall have been sent to the President 
before the expiration of the time within which a motion to reconsider 
may be made, the motion to reconsider shall be accompanied by a mo- 
tion to request the President to return such notification to the Senate. 
Any motion to reconsider the vote on a nomination may be laid on the 
table without prejudice to the nomination, and shall be final. 



STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE. 19 

NOMINATIONS— WHEN RETURNED TO THE PRESIDENT. 

74. Nominations confirmed or rejected by the Senate shall not be 
returned by the Secretary to the President until the expiration of the 
time limited for making a motion to reconsider the same, or while a 
motion to reconsider is pending, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate. 

NOMINATIONS — WHEN MOTION TO RECONSIDER SHALL FALL. 

75. When the Senate shall adjourn or take a recess for more than 
thirty days, all motions to reconsider a vote upon a nomination which 
has been confirmed or rejected by the Senate, which shall be pending 
at the time of taking such adjournment or recess, shall fallj and the 
Secretary shall return all such nominations to the President as confirmed 
or rejected by the Senate, as the case may be. 

NOMINATIONS— NOT FINALLY ACTED UPON AT CLOSE OF SESSION TO 
FALL AND BE RETURNED TO THE PRESIDENT. 

76. Nominations neither confirmed nor rejected during the session at 
which they are made, shall not be acted upon at any succeeding session 
without being again made to the Senate by the President; and if the 
Senate shall adjourn or take a recess for more than thirty days, all 
nominations pending and not finally acted upon at the time of taking 
such adjournment or recess shall be returned by the Secretary to the 
President, and shall not again be considered unless they shall again be 
made to the Senate by the President. 

PRESIDENT FURNISHED WITH COPIES OF RECORD. 

77. The President of the United States shall, from time to time, be 
furnished with an authenticated transcript of the executive records of 
the Senate, but no further extract from the Executive Journal shall be 
furnished by the Secretary, except by special order of the Senate; and 
no paper, except original treaties transmitted to the Senate by the 
President of the United States, and finally acted upon by the Senate, 
shall be delivered from the office of the Secretary without an order of 
the Senate for that purpose. 



45th Congress, ) SENATE. ( Eeport 

2d Session. f \ No. 404. 



IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



May 22, 1878.— Ordered to bo printed. 



Mr. Blaine, from the Committee on Eules, submitted the following 

EEPORT: 

The Committee on Rules ask leave to report a series of joint rules, 
to be proposed to the House of Eepresentatives. 

They are the same joint rules in force in former Congresses, except- 
ing therefrom the 22d joint rule, prescribing the proceedings in regard 
to counting the electoral votes of States, and adding a rule in regard 
to general legislation on appropriation bills. 
Respectfully submitted, with the accompanying resolution. 

J. G. BLAINE, 
T. W. FERRY, 
A. S. MERRIMON, 

Committee on Eules. 

Resolved, That the following joint rules be proposed to the House of 
Representatives : 

JOINT RULES OF THE TWO HOUSES. 

CONFERENCES. " 

1, In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one House 
and dissented to in the other, if either House shall request a conference, 
and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other House shall 
also appoint a committee to confer, such committee shall, at a convenient 
hour, to be agreed on by their chairmen, meet in the conference cham- 
ber, and state to each other, verbally or in writing, as either shall 
choose, the reasons of their respective Houses for and against the 
amendment, and confer freely thereon. 

[15 April, 1789. 
MESSAGE SENT TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

2, When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of 
Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the 
Doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the 
person by whom it may be sent. 



Z JOINT RULES OF THE TWO HOUSES. 

MESSAGE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO SENATE. 

3. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be 
sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate. 

BY WHOM MESSAGES MAY BE SENT. 

4. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in 
each House may determine to be proper. 

ENGROSSED BILLS. 

5. While bills are on their passage between the two Houses they shall 
be on paper, and under the signature of the Secretary or Clerk of each 
House, respectively. 

[6 August, 1789. 
ENROLLED BILLS. 

6. After a bill shall have passed both Houses it shall be duly enrolled 
on parchment by the Clerk of the House of Eepresentatives, or the 
Secretary of the Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or 
the other House, before it shall be presented to the President of the 
United States. 

[6 August, 1789. 
EXAMINATION OF ENROLLED BILLS. 

7. When bills are enrolled they shall be examined by a joint commit- 
tee of two from the Senate and two from the House of Representatives, 
appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, who shall carefully 
compare the enrolment with the engrossed bills, as passed in the two 
Houses, and correcting any errors that may be discovered in the en- 
rolled bills, make their report forthwith to their respective Houses. 

[6 August, 1789—1 Feb., 1827. 
SIGNING OF ENROLLED BILLS. 

8. After examination and report, each bill shall be signed in the re- 
spective Houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
then by the President of the Senate. 

[6 August. 1789. 
PRESENTATION OF ENROLLED BILLS TO THE PRESIDENT. 

9. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be 
presented by the said committee to the President of the United States 
for his approbation (it being first indorsed on the back of the roll, cer- 
tifying in which House the same originated, which endorsement shall 
be signed by the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be, of the House 
in which the same did originate), and shall be entered on the journal of 
each House. The said committee shall report the day of presentation 
to the President ; which time shall also be carefully entered on the 
journal of each House. 

[6 August. 17S9. 



JOINT RULES OP THE TWO HOUSES. d 

SAME PROCEEDINGS AS ABOVE ON ORDERS, RESOLUTIONS, AND VOTES, 

AS ON BILLS. 

10. All orders, resolutions, and votes, which are to be presented 
to the President of the United States for his approbation, shall also, in 
the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed 5 and 
shall be presented in the same manner, and by the same committee, as 
provided in the cases of bills. 

[6 August, 1789. 
JOINT ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT. 

11. When the Senate and House of Kepresentatives shall judge it 
proper to make a joint address to the President, it shall be presented 
to him in his audience chamber by the President of the Senate, in the 
presence of the Speaker and both Houses. 

[6 August, 1789. 
NOTICE OF REJECTED BILL. 

12. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one House 
is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the House in 
which the same shall have passed. 

[10 August, 1790. 
REJECTED BILL NOT RENEWED WITHOUT TEN DAYS' NOTICE. 

13. When a bill or resolution which has been passed in one House 
shall be rejected in the other, it shall not be brought in during the same 
session without a notice of ten days and leave of two-thirds of that 
House in which it shall be renewed. 

[10 June, 1790. 
PAPERS TO BE SENT WITH BILLS. 

14. Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any 
bill or resolution shall be founded. 

[10 June, 1790. 
ADHERENCE BY EACH HOUSE DESTROYS BILL. 

15. After each House shall have adhered to their disagreement, a bill 
or resolution shall be lost. 

[10 June, 1790, 

BILL NOT TO BE SENT TO OTHER HOUSE ON THREE LAST DAYS OF 

SESSION. 

* 16. No bill that shall have passed one House shall be sent for con- 
currence to the other on either of the last three days of the session. 

BILL NOT TO BE SENT TO THE PRESIDENT ON LAST DAY OF SESSION. 

* 17. No bill or resolution that shall have passed the House of Rep- 
resentatives and the Senate shall be presented to the President of the 
United States for his approbation on the last day of the session. 

* By the 26tli rule of Senate : A motion to suspend or concur in resolution of H. K. to suspend the 
16tli and 17th Joint Rules, or either of them, shall always he in order, immediately considered, and 
decided without dehate. 

[7 May, 1852. 



4 JOINT RULES OF THE TWO HOUSES. 

PRINTING OF BILLS BY THE OTHER HOUSE. 

18. When bills wbich have passed one House are ordered to be printed 
in the other, a greater number of copies shall not be printed than may 
be necessary for the use of the House making the order. 

[9 Feb , 1829. 
SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS FORBIDDEN. 

19. No spirituous or malt liquors or wines shall be offered for sale, 
exhibited, or kept within the Capitol, or in any room or building con- 
nected therewith, or on the public grounds adjacent thereto. And it 
shall be the duty of the Sergeantat-arms of the two Houses, under the 
supervision of the presiding cflficers thereof, respectively, to enforce the 
foregoing provisions. And any oflScer or employe of either House who 
shall in any manner violate, or connive at the violation, of this rule 
shall be dismissed from office. 

[18 Sep.. 1837— H. E., 26 Feb., 1844-S., 30 May, 1844. 
JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. 

20. There shall be a Joint Committee on the Library, to consist of 
three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the 
House of Eepresentatives, to superintend and direct the expenditure 
of all moneys appropriated for the Library, and to perform such other 
duties as are or may be directed by law. 

rS., 6 Dec, 1843— H. K., 7 Dec, 1843. 
CONTINUANCE OF BUSINESS AT SUBSEQUENT SESSION. 

21. After six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent 
session of Congress, all bills, resolutions, or reports, which originated 
in either House, and at the close of the next preceding session remained 
undetermined in either House, shall be resumed and acted on in the 
same manner as if an adjournment had not taken place. 

[14 August, 1848. 
FORBIDDING GENERAL LEGISLATION ON APPROPRIATION BILLS. 

23. A general appropriation bill shall not contain any provision of 
general legislation other than such as appropriates money for purposes 
already designated by law ; but this rule shall not be so construed as to 
prevent appropriations in bills providing for improvements of rivers 
and harbors for new river and harbor improvements. 



48th Congress, ) SENATE. ( Eeport 

1st Session. f ( No. 716. 



IN THE SENATE OP THE UNITED STATES. 



June 19, 1884. — Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Frye, from the Coiumittee on Rules, submitted the following 

REPORT: • 

The Committee on Bules, to whom was referred a Rouse resolution of date 
June 14, 1884, authorizing its Clerk to change the word ^' o/" in bill H, 
E. 2344, entitled ''An act for the relief of Melissa G. Polar ^^^ have con- 
sidered the same, and asTc leave to submit the following report : 

An investigation of the facts shows that this word " of" was contained 
in the bill as it passed both houses ; that the bill was duly engrossed 
and enrolled ; therefore if there is any mistake it is one of legislation. 
Unfortunately, several times during this session it has been necessary 
to correct mistakes occurring in engrossment and enrollment, and reso- 
lutions of like character with this have been resorted to for that pur- 
pose. X^ur committee express no opinion as to the propriety of that 
course. The case presented, however, raises an entirely different question. 
Can a legislative error be reformed in any such way '^ They have no 
hesitation in finding, under the rules of the Senate, that this resolution 
is not a proper remedy ; that this mistake, if one,, can be reached only 
by a reconsideration of the vote passing the bill referred to, and amend- 
ment, or by another act. Your committee recommend that the Senate 
non-concur in the resolution. 



49th Congress, ) SENATE. ) Eeport 

1st Session, j ^ No. 48. 



IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



January 19, 1886. — Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Ingalls, from the Committee on Rules, submitted tlie followiug 

RBPOET: 

[111 obedience to a resolution of tbe Senate of Marcb 31, 1885, directing the pii^para- 
tion of an official seal for the use of the Senate.] 

The Committee ou Eules, by resolution submitted March 21, and 
adopted March 31, 1885, was directed to procure a seal for the use of 
the Senate, the expenses of the same to be paid out of the contingent 
fund. From designs and estimates of cost submitted by eminent art- 
ists and engravers in the principal cities of the country, the committee 
selected that of Louis Dreka, of Philadelphia, as the lowest in cost and 
the higiiest in artistic excellence. The device presents the cap of Lib- 
erty, the shield, with the Stars and Stripes, and the national motto, sur- 
rounded by the legeud " United States Senate." It is engraved on steel, 
and was furnished with counter and press complete for $35. The low- 
est estimate submitted by any other competitor was $200. 

Careful examination of the Journals and archives of the Senate failed 
to disclose the history of the existing seal, or any authority for its use. 
It was left for an enterprising newspaper correspondent, who had be- 
come interested in governmental sphragistics, to discover that it was 
engraved about 1831, by Edward Stabler, postmaster at Sandy Springs, 
Md., from 1828 till his death, in 1883. The device was designed by R. 
P. Lamphear, jr., a French artist, thei^ resident in Washington. The 
corresi)ondence has been preserved by the son of Mr. Stabler (Edward, 
jr.), now a citizen of Baltimore. In a letter written by Mr. Wagner, of 
York, Pa., a wood-engraver, to the elder Mr. Stabler upon the subject 
of the seal engraved in 1831, he says: 

The seal of the Senate is not what it ought to be for the money it cost. The figures 
arc very awkward, especially the middle one, which apjiears to be falling over. The 
drapery is very stiff and too scanty a pattern ot it. 

No one has yet ever discovered what these tigures were intended to 
typify, or what relevancy they had to the United States Senate or its 
proceedings. At the feet of the central figure are the words, ''July 4, 
1776," and on a scroll at her right the words and figures, "Constitution, 
March 4, 1789." These inscriptions cannot be discerned on any impres- 
sions made within fifteen years from the old seal -, but they are plainly 
legible on the original proof impressions in the possession of Mr. Stab- 
ler, who has a very large collection of seals made by his father for the 
various Departments at Washington, and for many of the State govern- 
ments and courts, together with all the original correspondence relating 
thereto. 



I OFFICIAL SEAL OF THE 8ENATE. 

At common law the sealing of an instrument is recognized as an act 
of formal and solemn authentication by an impression upon the parch- 
ment or paper of some permanent symbol or token in addition to the 
signature; but the committee do not regard the use of a seal by the 
Senate as necessary, or, i^erhaps, as desirable, except where specially 
directed; and as there is now no authority whatever upon the subject, 
they recommend the adoption of the following as one of the standing 
rules of the Senate: 

Ordered, That the Secretary shall have the custody of the great seal, 
and shall use the same for the authentication of process, transcripts, 
copies, and certificates whenever directed by the Senate. 




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